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Week fortythree October 21st - October 28th

The largest prunings of gooseberries, blackcurrants and red currants are easy to propagate from this years wood, if you're sure your stock is disease free. Take pieces 18 inches long and making a slit into the soil with a spade, insert the twigs up to three quarters of their length into the soil making sure that the top of the twig is the right way up and not buried. Leave until next year when they can be stripped of any growth apart from five or six buds at the top and the roots below ground, and transplanted.

This weeks blog - what I did in the allotment this week